Natural hazards · Mapleton

Mapleton, PA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mapleton comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 1984.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Mapleton?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mapleton to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding80%Strong wind10%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Mapleton faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

80% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningAvalanches

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Mapleton flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Mapleton, from FEMA’s records.

3paid claims since 1984

$13Kpaid to owners

1homes flooded more than once

19842026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $8K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (0) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Mapleton isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Huntingdon County.

Disasters that hit Mapleton

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Huntingdon County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Mapleton itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into MapletonDeclared for Huntingdon County only

Huntingdon County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Mapleton

Mapleton and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Mapletonmostly inland floodingHigh

Unionmostly inland floodingHigh

Bradymostly inland floodingHigh

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Mapleton is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Mapleton’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Borough of Mapleton. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.